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Bordighera Press
Bordighera Press is an independent publisher that was founded in 1989 by Fred Gardaphé, Paolo Giordano, and Anthony Julian Tamburri. Committed to Italian and Italian American Italian Americans ( it, italoamericani or ''italo-americani'', ) are Americans who have full or partial Italian ancestry. The largest concentrations of Italian Americans are in the urban Northeast and industrial Midwestern metropolitan areas, w ... culture in North America, the press consists of four series (Bordighera Poetry Prize, Crossings, Saggistica, and Via Folios) and two journals (''VIA'' and ''Italiana''). Based in Indiana, the publisher also has editorial offices located in New York City. History Born out of an anthology, "From the Margins, Writings in Italian Americana," and the desire to go beyond stereotypical portrayals, the founders of Bordighera Press wanted to see the full array of the Italian American experience reflected both in popular and scholarly works. Since its inception, the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anthony Julian Tamburri
Anthony Julian Tamburri is the seventh executive director and longest serving with the title of Dean of the John D. Calandra Italian American Institute of Queens College, CUNY and Distinguished Professor of European Languages and Literatures. He has written over one hundred journal articles and book chapters, and sixteen books. Biography Born and raised in Stamford, Connecticut Tamburri earned degrees from Southern Connecticut State University (BS, Italian & Spanish), Middlebury College (MA, Italian), and the University of California, Berkeley (PhD, Italian & Spanish). He taught both Italian and Spanish at the high-school level, and Italian language and literature at Smith, Middlebury, and Auburn, and Italian and Italian/American studies at Purdue University, before moving to Florida Atlantic University where he served first as Chair of the Department of Languages & Linguistics and then Associate Dean for Research, Graduate, and Interdisciplinary Studies, as well as Director of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emanuel Di Pasquale
Emanuel di Pasquale is an American poet and translator. Life His work has appeared in ''The Journal of Orgonomy'' ''American Poetry Review'', ''Sewanee Review'', ''New York Quarterly'', and the ''New York Times''. He lives in East Brunswick, New Jersey East Brunswick is a township in Middlesex County, New Jersey, United States. The suburban bedroom community is part of the New York City metropolitan area and is located on the southern shore of the Raritan River, directly adjacent to the city .... Awards * 2000 Raiziss/de Palchi Translation Awards * 1998 Bordighera Poetry Prize, ''Song of the Tulip Tree'', by Joe Salerno Works Poetry * * * * Translations * * Anthologies * References {{DEFAULTSORT:Di Pasquale, Emanuel Year of birth missing (living people) Living people American male poets Italian–English translators 20th-century American poets 20th-century American translators 20th-century American male writers 21st-century American poets 21st-centu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Vetere
Richard Vetere (born January 15, 1952 in New York City) is an American playwright, screenwriter, television writer, poet and actor. Career Born in 1952, Vetere grew up in Maspeth, Queens, a setting that appears in a number of his plays. He graduated from Columbia University with a master's degree in Comparative Literature and has written and published various books on poetry of which include ''Memories of Human Hands'' and ''A Dream of Angels''. Vetere's plays have been produced Off Broadway, regionally and internationally, such as ''The Engagement'', ''Coupla Bimbos Sittin' Around Talkin'', ''Gangster Apparel'', ''Caravaggio'', ''Machiavelli'', and ''One Shot, One Kill'' and all have been published by Dramatic Publishing. In 1983 his play ''Rockaway Boulevard'' was reviewed by Michiko Kakutani in ''The New York Times'' and she wrote,"Vetere demonstrates the ability to mix the poetic with the colloquial." In 1983 Vetere's screenplay ''Vigilante'' was made into a featur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sandro Veronesi (writer)
Sandro Veronesi (born 1959) is an Italian novelist, essayist, and journalist. After earning a degree in architecture at the University of Florence, he opted for a writing career in his mid to late twenties. Veronesi published his first book at the age of 25, a collection of poetry (''Il resto del cielo'', 1984) that has remained his only venture into verse writing. He has since published five novels, three books of essays, one theatrical piece, numerous introductions to novels and collections of essays, interviews, screenplays, and television programs. Veronesi has twice been awarded Italy's most prestigious literary prize, the Premio Strega: in 2006 for his novel and in 2020 for his novel ''The Hummingbird'' (''Il colibrì''). Works ''Il resto del cielo'' consists of twenty-five short compositions, none longer than fourteen verses, that speak to the general problematics of communication, all of which is underscored by a constant coincidentia oppositorum. Seemingly simple verses ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Tusiani
Joseph is a common male given name, derived from the Hebrew Yosef (יוֹסֵף). "Joseph" is used, along with "Josef", mostly in English, French and partially German languages. This spelling is also found as a variant in the languages of the modern-day Nordic countries. In Portuguese and Spanish, the name is "José". In Arabic, including in the Quran, the name is spelled '' Yūsuf''. In Persian, the name is "Yousef". The name has enjoyed significant popularity in its many forms in numerous countries, and ''Joseph'' was one of the two names, along with ''Robert'', to have remained in the top 10 boys' names list in the US from 1925 to 1972. It is especially common in contemporary Israel, as either "Yossi" or "Yossef", and in Italy, where the name "Giuseppe" was the most common male name in the 20th century. In the first century CE, Joseph was the second most popular male name for Palestine Jews. In the Book of Genesis Joseph is Jacob's eleventh son and Rachel's first son, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lewis Turco
Lewis Putnam Turco (born May 2, 1934) is an American poet, teacher, and writer of fiction and non-fiction. Turco is an advocate for Formalist poetry (or New Formalism) in the United States. Life and work Turco took a keen interest in poetry as a teenager and after high school, while serving in the U.S. Navy aboard , he had work published in various little magazines and quarterlies. He graduated from the University of Connecticut in 1959, published his '' First Poems'' in 1960, and completed an MA at the University of Iowa in 1962 (at the Iowa Writers' Workshop). It was there that he cultivated an interest in formal verse and began, to use his words, "collecting forms." Turco collected these forms in the '' Book of Forms'', published in the 1960s, a time when it would seem odd to do so since most poets were writing free verse. Turco taught at Fenn College in Cleveland (now Cleveland State University) where he founded the Cleveland Poetry Center and at the State University of N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maria Terrone
Maria Terrone (May 21, Manhattan) is an American poet and writer. She is the author of three collections of poetry: ''Eye to Eye'' (2014), ''A Secret Room in Fall'' (2006) and ''The Bodies We Were Loaned'' (2002). She has been nominated four times for a Pushcart Prize and has received the Individual Artist Initiative Award from the Queens Council on the Arts. Her poetry ranges widely in subject, including themes of history, family and contemporary urban environments. Life and career Terrone grew up in Jackson Heights, Queens, New York, and graduated from Fordham University with a Bachelor of Arts in English. In the early years of her career, she worked as a journalist, magazine editor and in corporate communications. In 1990, she joined the City University of New York:Queens College Office of Communications < ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Parenti
Michael John Parenti (born September 30, 1933) is an American political scientist, academic historian and cultural critic who writes on scholarly and popular subjects. He has taught at universities as well as run for political office. Parenti is well known for his Marxist writings and lectures. He is a leading intellectual of the American Left. Education and personal life Michael Parenti was raised by an Italian-American working-class family in the East Harlem neighborhood of New York City. After graduating from high school, Parenti worked for several years. Upon returning to school, he received a BA from the City College of New York, an MA from Brown University and a PhD in political science from Yale University. Parenti is the father of Christian Parenti, an academic, author and journalist. Career For many years Parenti taught political and social science at various institutions of higher learning. Eventually he devoted himself full-time to writing, public speaking, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nick Mileti
Nick James Mileti (born April 22, 1931) is an American author, retired lawyer, former businessman, sports entrepreneur and former sports franchise owner who was, during the 1970s, the owner of the Cleveland Indians, Cleveland Cavaliers, Cleveland Crusaders, the Cleveland Arena, the Coliseum at Richfield and radio station "3WE" WWWE AM/1100 (now WTAM). Sports franchise ownership career Born in southeast Cleveland, Mileti put himself through college, graduating from Bowling Green State University (BGSU) in 1953. The BGSU Alumni Center is now named in his honor. He was a member of the Theta Chi fraternity at BGSU. Following his time at BGSU, he earned a J.D. degree from the Ohio State University Moritz College of Law in 1956. After military service he opened a law practice in Lakewood, Ohio and became prosecutor there after befriending the mayor. He became involved in sports after serving as chairman of the Bowling Green alumni association and organizing a BGSU game at the Clevel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Annie Lanzillotto
Annie Lanzillotto (born June 1, 1963) is an American author, poet, songwriter, director, actor, podcaster, and performance artist. Her book, '' L Is for Lion: An Italian Bronx Butch Freedom Memoir'' was published by State University of New York Press. 2013. Her book of poetry, ''Schistsong'' was published by Bordighera Press. 2013. Her double flip book of poetry and prose, ''Hard Candy: Caregiving, Mourning, and Stage Light'' and ''Pitch Roll Yaw'' was published by Guernica Editions 2018. Her podcast ''Annie's Story Cave'' commenced while sheltering in place alone in 2020. She is the Artistic Director of ''Street Cry Inc''. Lanzillotto is a member of Actors' Equity, Dramatists Guild of America, PEN America, Remember the Triangle Fire Coalition, ''Malìa'': a Collective of Italian American Women, The Italian American Writers Association (IAWA), a blogger for i-Italy.com,Stephanie LaFarge, of Project Nim. and Dr. James Crowley of Rhode Island Hospital. She studied at The Ame ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anna Camaiti Hostert
Anna Camaiti Hostert (born July 19, 1949, in Florence, Italy) is an Italian American philosopher and a scholar of Visual Studies. She lives and works between Italy and the United States. Biography She obtained her degree in Philosophy at the University of Pisa (Italy) defending a dissertation with the philosopher Nicola Badaloni. Then she received a PhD in Literature and Film from the University of Chicago. She has taught at Loyola University of Chicago, at the University of Illinois, Chicago, and the University of Rome La Sapienza (Italy). She was ''Visiting Professor'' at the University of Southern California (USC) in Los Angeles and the Florence campus of the New York University (NYU) Tisch School of Cinema. She was also ''Distinguished Visiting Professor'' at Florida Atlantic University (FAU) in Boca Raton. She was Acting Associate Dean at the Loyola University’s campus in Rome. In 1999 she founded along the philosopher Mario Perniola the magazine '' Agalma: Magazine of A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daniela Gioseffi
Daniela Gioseffi (born 1941) is a poet, novelist and performer who won the American Book Award in 1990 for ''Women on War; International Writings from Antiquity to the Present'' (Touchstone/Simon & Schuster, 1988). She has published 16 books of poetry and prose and won a PEN American Center's Short Fiction prize (1995), and The John Ciardi Award for Lifetime Achievement in Poetry (2007). Early life Gioseffi was born in 1941 in Orange, New Jersey, the daughter of an Arbereshe Italian immigrant father, Daniel Donato Gioseffi, one of the first Italian immigrants to win a Phi Beta Kappa in the United States from the alpha chapter of Union College in Schenectady. Her mother was a war orphan of Polish and Russian Jewish descent who worked as a seamstress and dress designer. Because of her mother's orphan status, and her father's large Italian family, Gioseffi grew up with a strong imprint of Italian American culture. She grew up in Newark and attended Avon Avenue Public School, late ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
